arbitrary precision support opinions

[Doug Stewart]

Martin McDermott wrote:
> Hello
>
> I wondering what people think about 
> arbitrary precision support(mostly for large integers).
>
>
> I'm pretty new to Octave, but it does sound pretty handy and like it 
> would put it a step above Matlab. Ive also been looking for a 
> interesting project for awhile now, so I'm not expecting/demanding 
> this feature out of anyone.
>
> So, do you guys think it would be useful? Would it be used by anyone 
> else? Any potential problems or general objections? 
>
> At first it could just be a simple ifndef to choose, and maybe later 
> it could be a option during runtime (I'm not sure how yet).
>
> This would be a pretty big project for me so Id just like some input 
> about it first.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marty


Did you look at the symbolic package?
It does vpa  (variable precision arithmetic)
Doug